About Me

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. I earned my PhD jointly from The University of Melbourne, Australia and IIT Kanpur, India in the year 2017 as a Melbourne India Postgraduate Academy (MIPA) Scholar under the Joint PhD Agreement between the two institutions. I earned my B.Tech and M.Tech (specialization in Geoinformatics) from Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur under the B.Tech-M.Tech Dual Degree Program in 2011.

Prior to my PhD (2012-2013), I was working as Research Assistant at IIT Kanpur where we developed an innovative technology that enabled scanning of moving objects using LiDAR (refer to publications for details).

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Recent news:

• [2026] Our target-less multi-LiDAR extrinsic calibration framework called ‘ExCalibR’ is now online. Click here to access the paper. This work is led by Surbhi Barnwal and partly supported by ISRO (Through Space Technology Cell (STC)).

• [2026] We have been granted a patent “An Artificial Intelligence Based System for Monitoring and Analyzing Air Quality”. (Patent number: 582461).

• [2025] Our recent work on ‘Impact-Driven Multi-Criteria Decision Appraoch for Strategic On-Street Parking Placement” is now online Click here to access the paper.

• [2025] Our recent works on road surface roughness, and road and sidewalk detection using bicycle based LiDAR are now online. Click here and Here to access the papers.

• [2025] Our work investigating the impact of on-street parking on traffic, led by Prashant Chauhan is now online. Click here to access the paper.

• [2024] Our work on foot mounted UWB sensors for pedestrian localization led by Ashwani Kumar is published by ION GNSS+ 2024. Click here to access the paper.

• [2024] Received INAE Young Associate 2024 by Indian National Academy of Engineering.

• [2024] Recognized as Geospatial World 50 Rising Stars by Geospatial World at Rotterdam, Netherlands.

• [2024] Received SPARC - Phase 3 grant in collaboration with University of Melbourne, Australia for ‘Pedestrian Safety in Smart Cities using LiDAR and Camera’.

• [2024] Received SPARC - Phase 3 grant in collaboration with IIT Delhi and Purdue University, USA for ‘UAV based monitoring system for infrastructure projects using deep learning models’.

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Links:

IITKanpur Homepage | Department of Civil Engineering | Geoinformatics Lab

Last updated: May 05, 2026